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greatly. There is no need for the usual storage 

 tanks and elaborate filters, so pure water can be 

 supplied direct in unlimited quantities from the 

 sea via a small delivery tank. 



In order to have a pure water supply in the 

 laboratory, and avoid the introduction of unknown 

 quantities in experiments, the water will come 

 into contact with no metal. The pump (elec- 

 trically driven) is lined with stoneware, all pipes 

 are of celluloid and the tank of concrete. Com- 

 pressed air is also supplied. Gas for ovens, et 

 cetera, is installed from Bubagas cylinders. 



D. Each room is intended to be complete in 

 itself, the storage of live specimens to be under 

 the control of each worker; large specimens can 

 be kept in the tank outside or in cages afloat in 

 the harbor. 



E. The station has the inestimable advantage 

 of its own boat harbor in which apparatus, ex- 

 perimental or for storage of live stock, can be left 

 secure from interference. This allows us to dis- 

 pense with much of the tank and circulating 

 water apparatus usually necessary, and makes 

 possible experiments which cannot be undertaken 

 in a public harbor. 



F. The buildings are all of inexpensive con- 

 struction, but visitors will find them perfectly 

 comfortable at any time of the year. In a mari- 

 time climate insulation, however desirable, is 

 entirely subordinate to movement of the air, and 

 all buildings have been so placed that the wind 

 can be admitted, to the extent desired, at all 

 times. Further we are some hundred miles from 

 the area of low pressure and high humidity which 

 has given the Red Sea its reputation for unbear- 

 able heat in summer. I can testify to the differ- 

 ence from my own experience. 



(Signed) C. Crossland 



INDIA 

 Marine Survey OflBce, British India ('37) 



Location: Bombay. 



Staff: Surveyor in charge, Commander L. Sander- 

 son, R. I. N. 



Assistant surveyors, Lieut. Commander J. 

 Ryland; Lieut. Comm. J. W. Jefford, R. I. N. 



Equipment: 



SURVEYING VESSEL 



Investigator 



DI-gPLACEMENT OFKrcEItS CREW 



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The Zoological Survey of India ('37) 



History of origin: Established in 1916. 



Location: The Indian Museum, Calcutta. 



Organization to which attached: Government in- 

 stitute. 



Purposes: The function of the Zoological Survey of 

 India is to investigate the fauna of India and 

 Indian Seas. 



Scope of activities: Care and maintenance of the 

 zoological and anthropological collections of the 

 Government of India. The identification of 

 specimens and the investigations of the ecology 

 and bionomics of the Indian fauna. The main- 

 tenance of the zoological and anthropological 

 galleries, open to the public, in the Indian 

 Museum. 



Equipment: The Investigator, on the retirement 

 of Maj. R. W. G., Hing.ston, I.M.S., from the 

 post of Surgeon-Naturalist in 1926, ceased to 

 carry out oceanographic work and marine investi- 

 gations. The post of Surgeon-Naturalist, that 

 had always been an Indian Medical Service ap- 

 pointment, was abolished and in its place the post 

 of Naturalist to the Marine Survey of India was 

 created and was embodied in the Zoological 

 Survey of India, but owing to financial stringency 

 this post has never been filled. 



Staff: Dr. Baini Prashad, F.R.S.E., is the Director; 

 4 As.sistant Superintendents (zoological) ; 1 Assist- 

 ant Superintendent (anthropological); Naturalist 

 to the Marine Survey of India (vacant). 



Provision for publication of results: Records of the 

 Indian Museum, Memoirs of the Indian Museum. 

 Prior to its conversion into the Zoological Survey 

 of India in 1916 this department formed the 

 zoological and anthropological section of the 

 Indian Museum and the trustees of the Indian 

 Museum published a large number of compre- 

 hensive monographs dealing especially with the 

 collections of the Marine Survey of India. 



The following statement on the marine work of the 

 Zoological Survey of India was made by Dr. Sunder 

 Lai Hora: 



The curators of the Museum of the Asiatic 

 Society of Bengal, for example McClelland and 

 Blyth, were mainly interested in the study of 

 the freshwater and terrestrial fauna of India. 

 With the establishment of the Indian Museum, 

 and more especially after the creation of the 

 post of the Surgeon-Naturalist, more and more 



